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The Year of Shadows

by Claire Legrand; Karl Kwasny (Illustrator)

Synopsis

Olivia wants a new life and it might take ghosts to get it. A heartfelt, gently Gothic novel from Claire Legrand.
Olivia Stellatella is having a rough year.
Her mother s left, her neglectful father the maestro of a failing orchestra has moved her and her grandmother into the city s dark, broken-down concert hall to save money, and her only friend is Igor, an ornery stray cat.
Just when she thinks life couldn t get any weirder, she meets four ghosts who haunt the hall. They need Olivia s help if the hall is torn down, they ll be stuck as ghosts forever, never able to move on.
Olivia has to do the impossible for her shadowy new friends: Save the concert hall. But helping the dead has powerful consequences for the living and soon it s not just the concert hall that needs saving.

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Book Information

Copyright year 2013
ISBN-13 9781442442948
ISBN-10 1442442948
Class Copyright
Publisher Simon & Schuster Books For Young Readers
Subject Fiction;Juvenile Fiction
File Size 541 MB
Number of Pages 416
Shelf No. KR913
Grade Range 3 - 7
Ages 8 - 12
Lexile 570L